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TIL sharks don’t have any bones, their skeletons are made of cartilage

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XEBPj TIL The Republic of China (Taiwan) and the USSR is still legally the permanent members of the United Nation Security Council
e0kE5 TIL in 2005, a strip club in Bloise, Idaho, managed to sidestep city laws banning total nudity in public by offering customers the chance to make drawings depicting its dancers. The law forbids full nudity in public unless the display has "serious artistic merit".
mvWy TIL that bystanders in China are afraid to help in an accident because a court precedent assigned blame to the helper
bra7 TIL Congress was banned from editing Wikipedia
R7R19 TIL that around 80% of ‘close door’ buttons on elevators don’t do anything